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Jaeh:
--- Quote from: Priscellie on July 19, 2011, 11:58:33 AM ---Deleted about 200 spam accounts.
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The carnage. :o
Fyrchick:
--- Quote from: Priscellie on July 19, 2011, 11:58:33 AM ---Deleted about 200 spam accounts.
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Just curious... if you delete them then they shouldn't show up in the members list, right? (It seems obvious, but we all know where assuming gets us.) I would hate to be sending duplicate links.
AND, although a new book is due any minute, the number of new registrations is CRAZY. Especially the ones with names like ugoasi&6AQ and Guriw&&6%$#78 and ones in Russian and Garbage. I know you don't have the time to sit and sift through them, but there were 236 new accounts yesterday alone. I'm not sure what changed, and I'm not sure if it really affects anything, but I thought you might like to know!
El Diablo:
What's happening is that there's a script out there that can tag SMF forums and add accounts without human intervention. I ran into a similar problem a few years back with my Snitz forum - but easily defeated the scripts with simply adding a textbox to the member add page that expected a value of 123 - On the page before it (the I agree page) I added a label saying "REMEMBER THE SECRET CODE IS 123 , YOU HAVE TO ADD THAT TO GET AN ACCOUNT!).
I went from hundreds of spam accounts to none.
Jaeh:
personally I'm fascinated by the verification boxes where you need to add numbers. :D
but I dunno if they're effective.
El Diablo:
They are, the script just gets the error page instead of a successful add. Since you are stopping the post with a simple if/then, you kill off all the scripts and just have to worry about actual humans doing it.
It can also be done on sites that don't require a membership to post, just include the check on the post page.
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